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ROMAN COINS AND AMERICAN LIBERTY: How Ancient Rome Shaped the Symbolism of U.S. Coinage (THE ROMAN COINAGE SERIES: History · Craft · Production · Meaning) - Softcover
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Look at a U.S. quarter. Then look at a Roman denarius. A head on one side, an eagle on the other, a few carefully chosen words. Two thousand years apart, the two coins speak the same symbolic language. Roman Coins and American Liberty shows where that language came from, and why it lasted. Roman mints turned Liberty, Authority and Victory into images that anyone could read at a glance. The founders of the United States, looking for a way to represent a republic without kings, reached for the same vocabulary of portraits, personifications and inscriptions.
In this book you will discover:
- why Liberty appears on coins as a person rather than a slogan
- how the eagle travelled from the Roman legion to the American dollar
- what inscriptions such as LIBERTAS and E PLURIBUS UNUM say, and what they leave unsaid
- why symbols outlive the political systems that created them
- how to read a coin: obverse, reverse, legend, field and mint marks
Open it to any page, and the coins in your pocket will never look quite the same.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Look at a U.S. quarter. Then look at a Roman denarius. A head on one side, an eagle on the other, a few carefully chosen words. Two thousand years apart, the two coins speak the same symbolic language. Roman Coins and American Liberty shows where that language came from, and why it lasted. Roman mints turned Liberty, Authority and Victory into images that anyone could read at a glance. The founders of the United States, looking for a way to represent a republic without kings, reached for the same vocabulary of portraits, personifications and inscriptions. In this book you will discover: why Liberty appears on coins as a person rather than a sloganhow the eagle travelled from the Roman legion to the American dollarwhat inscriptions such as LIBERTAS and E PLURIBUS UNUM say, and what they leave unsaidwhy symbols outlive the political systems that created themhow to read a coin: obverse, reverse, legend, field and mint marksInside: ten close-up studies of single coins, ten side-by-side comparisons between Roman and American pieces, four plates, a timeline, a glossary, a catalogue of every coin shown, and an annotated list of sources for further reading. This is Volume III of The Roman Coinage Series. It can be read on its own, with no specialist knowledge required. For collectors, history readers, teachers, and anyone curious about the hidden meanings in everyday objects. A new way to look at coins: not as currency, but as carriers of memory, power and identity. Open it to any page, and the coins in your pocket will never look quite the same. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798243405102
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. What if the foundations of American liberty were shaped not only by laws and constitutions, but also by symbols struck in metal?What if the language used to represent freedom, authority, and national identity in U.S. coinage drew upon ideas that had already proven their strength in the ancient world?Roman Coins and American Liberty continues the journey begun in What Roman Coins Mean and Inside the Roman Mint, shifting the perspective from Rome itself to what followed. Rather than focusing on ancient workshops or individual coin types, this volume explores how the symbolic language developed in Roman political culture found renewed meaning in the United States.At the moment of its foundation, the American republic faced a central challenge: how to represent liberty without kings, authority without dynasties, and power without personal rule. In shaping its coinage, the United States activated enduring solutions first articulated through Roman coinage. Liberty appears as a civic value rather than a private condition; authority is expressed impersonally through institutions; power is represented through symbols instead of rulers; and political language remains concise, formal, and restrained.These choices aligned naturally with the ideals of the Founding generation, who looked to the Roman Republic as a historical framework grounded in law, civic virtue, and institutional balance. Coins became one of the most effective tools for translating those principles into everyday experience.In both Rome and the United States, coins performed the same essential function: they transformed abstract political ideas into visible, familiar forms that circulated among all citizens, reinforcing identity, values, and authority through daily use rather than proclamation.This book traces that shared logic with historical rigor and comparative clarity, showing how American coinage did not merely inherit ancient imagery, but reactivated a symbolic language capable of expressing freedom, unity, and institutional trust within a modern republic.Inside this book, you will discover: The Roman symbolic legacy in American coinageLibertas and Liberty as civic valuesAuthority without kings and portraitsThe eagle as a national emblemInscriptions as institutional voiceCoins as civic narrativeU.S. coinage from independence to todayCoins in the age of electronic moneyThe collector as the last conscious readerThis is not a catalogue or a technical manual.It is a study of how coins communicate, and why a symbolic language forged in Rome continues to shape the representation of liberty, authority, and identity in the United States.Written by Marco J. Rowen, collector and researcher of coinage as a language of history.Add Roman Coins and American Liberty to your collection and discover how ancient symbols continue to define a modern republic, one coin at a time. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798243405102
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Look at a U.S. quarter. Then look at a Roman denarius. A head on one side, an eagle on the other, a few carefully chosen words. Two thousand years apart, the two coins speak the same symbolic language. Roman Coins and American Liberty shows where that language came from, and why it lasted. Roman mints turned Liberty, Authority and Victory into images that anyone could read at a glance. The founders of the United States, looking for a way to represent a republic without kings, reached for the same vocabulary of portraits, personifications and inscriptions. In this book you will discover: - why Liberty appears on coins as a person rather than a slogan- how the eagle travelled from the Roman legion to the American dollar- what inscriptions such as LIBERTAS and E PLURIBUS UNUM say, and what they leave unsaid- why symbols outlive the political systems that created them- how to read a coin: obverse, reverse, legend, field and mint marksInside: ten close-up studies of single coins, ten side-by-side comparisons between Roman and American pieces, four plates, a timeline, a glossary, a catalogue of every coin shown, and an annotated list of sources for further reading. This is Volume III of The Roman Coinage Series. It can be read on its own, with no specialist knowledge required. For collectors, history readers, teachers, and anyone curious about the hidden meanings in everyday objects. A new way to look at coins: not as currency, but as carriers of memory, power and identity. Open it to any page, and the coins in your pocket will never look quite the same. Seller Inventory # 9798243405102
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